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Why the Google Admob Acquisition is Important to Me
Earlier this week Google made a $750 Million purchase of Admob a company specializing in mobile advertising. It surprised the market in two ways. It was Google’s 3rd largest acquisition (behind DoubleClick and YouTube) ever. The mobile advertising industry is fairly small at this time. However, Google is moving into mobile in a variety of [...]
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Live from Finovate Startup 2009 – Introduction
Like last year’s Live Blogging from Finovate, I’ll be giving it another shot this year… and by “this year”, I really mean today. For those not familiar with Finovate Startup, it’s a convention of startup companies around banking and finance held in San Francisco. Finovate Startup has always interested me. Other bloggers have asked me [...]
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Lending Club Update
While I was asleep at the wheel on Friday, Lending Club came through with an update on their quiet period. When we last left them, I declared Lending Club is Dead. I admit that I was going for a sensational headline, but I still maintain that I wasn’t irrational. When a start-up company says that [...]
